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Jug

Cambrian Pottery (Established in Swansea in 1764, the Cambrian Pottery reached its creative peak under the proprietorship of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855), who ran the Pottery (with a break between 1817 and 1824) from 1802 to 1836. Lewis Weston Dillwyn was a natural scientist, antiquarian, Member of Parliament, magistrate and landowner whose intellectual interests drove the Cambrian Pottery to become one of the most ambitious and artistically accomplished British potteries of the early 19th century. While the porcelain manufactured in Swansea between 1814 and 1825 justifies its reputation as among the finest of British porcelains, the pottery produced under Dillwyn’s ownership between 1802 and about 1809 was at its best an equally impressive achievement, most particularly that made for sale in the Pottery’s Cambrian Warehouse in London 1806-1808, the context for which this supper service was most likely created.)

Jug, pearl-glazed earthenware, globular shaped body with a high collar neck, double C-scroll handle with thumbpiece, coventional triangular spout, the body moulded with adjacent cabbage leaves under scrolls, a further leaf under the spout, the collar moulded with vertical grooves each groove terminating in a moulded vine leaf alternately pointing upwards and downwards and with moulded grapes in between; the jug painted in enamels, the centre of each leaf painted with roses and brown flowers alternating with a pink tulip, the leaf moulding picked out in brown enamel, a spray of blue flowers to either side of the collar, brown dots to handle back, brown enamel on semi-circles around rim.